Cultural Perspectives On Music

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Appraise, interpret and analyse the major aspects of human musical activity in Australia and throughout the world;
2. Develop a vocabulary and critical listening skills that will enable them to discuss music from an informed critical framework;
3. Articulate the ways in which music and identity are linked within social and cultural formations;
4. Analyse ways in which music has been connected historically to individual places, looking in particular at how this connection is expressed in musical terms and techniques; and
5. Evaluate and apply a range of musicological research methods.